1. Confidence intervals for the ratio of two median residual lifetimes with left-truncated and right-censored data.
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Tsai TH, Tsai WY, Chi Y, and Chang SM
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- Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Computer Simulation, Data Interpretation, Statistical, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Reproducibility of Results, Sample Size, Sensitivity and Specificity, Taiwan epidemiology, Confidence Intervals, Life Expectancy, Models, Statistical, Odds Ratio, Proportional Hazards Models, Survival Analysis
- Abstract
The confidence intervals for the ratio of two median residual lifetimes are developed for left-truncated and right-censored data. The approach of Su and Wei (1993) is first extended by replacing the Kaplan-Meier survival estimator with the estimator of the conditional survival function (Lynden-Bell, 1971). This procedure does not involve a nonparametric estimation of the probability density function of the failure time. However, the Su and Wei type confidence intervals are very conservative even for larger sample size. Therefore, this article proposes an alternative confidence interval for the ratio of two median residual lifetimes, which is not only without nonparametric estimation of the density function of failure times but is also computationally simpler than the Su and Wei type confidence interval. A simulation study is conducted to examine the accuracy of these confidence intervals and the implementation of these confidence intervals to two real data sets is illustrated., (© 2015, The International Biometric Society.)
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- 2016
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